California Pictures: Family

Some pictures of us throughout the trip, and some of the relatives we went to visit.


The Morgans (minus me, because I was taking the picture)




In-N-Out, classic California experience. Their food is pretty good. And if you go there, it's practically a law that you have to get a picture of your very first bite. Which I didn't do, so I got a picture of my second time being there.




Darn sunshine, ruining our pictures! ;)


Playing a card game with one of the cousins.


My charming husband.


Okay, technically this isn't family, but close enough. This was my college roommate. We met her and her husband and their two year old for dinner.



This was on our way to the aquarium.





I had to get a picture of myself by the real ocean. We didn't get any closer than this.


I'm pretty sure we don't have a single picture of Joe making a normal face.






The Morgans: Photo-bombing each other since 1984.


I just realized that, aside from the fantastic centering, we're not even ready for the picture.


Preparing the Filipino feast. I helped peel lumpia wrappers.


Sally made an asian friend while we were there, so we went to her place for lunch the day before Magic Mountain.


Swimming a little, the evening before Magic Mountain.


We took pictures with as many relatives as possible. This is 95 year old great-grandma.


David's stepdad and his wife.


Teaching a cousin to play the dice game. Also known as 10,000 or Nuscht. (sp?)


One last family picture, and then we headed home.

There! That's the last of the pictures from our California trip. Now I can get back to blogging about real life again.

California Trip: Ronald Reagan Library

I think all the pictures for this post are ours. I don't think I have any stolen-from-Google images. Enjoy!


The closest I'll ever get to meeting the great man himself. Until heaven.





Take a look at the picture above, and read the caption below. They say history repeats itself...



Just a few of his belt buckles. Some are his, many were gifts. He could have worn a different one every single day of the year, and still had a few left over.


He LOVED Jelly Belly beans. So somone made a portrait of him entirely out of Jelly Belly beans!


This is not a sketch. This is a portrait of him made from every word in his inauguration speech. Is that cool or is that cool?


Speaking of cool...

THE Air Force One. Not a replica. The one actually used during his Presidancy.


Marine One, the helicopter version of Air Force One.


I love these pictures.



An exact replica of the oval office when it was occupied by Ronald Reagan.




An actual piece of the berlin wall that Reagan ordered to be torn down.


The view from the grounds of the library.



He final resting place.

As presidents go, Ronald Reagan was a great one. I'm excited to bring our children here someday.

Contact Your Senators ASAP

The Senate is voting in the proposed healthcare bill tomorrow, so we need to contact our senators tonight and tell them to vote NO on ObamaCare.

If this goes through, it will spell disaster for our country. We're already burdened with unimaginable debt (thanks to Obama's bailouts and stimulus bill). This plan will only pile on billions more.

Even more importantly, we don't need the government getting involved in our business. It isn't the government's job to run our banks, our car companies, our insurance companies, and our hospitals. I don't know when it happened, but so many have adopted an "entitlement" attitude, thinking that it's the government's duty to provide them with free healthcare. It's not.

We don't need healthcare reform, especially the kind that the government is proposing. We have the best healthcare system in the world. We need health insurance reform, and it could easily be done without the government controlling the whole system.

If you want to look at the facts yourself, here is a study done by Price Waterhouse Cooper that spells out exactly how bad this will be for America. The Heritage Foundation posted a summarized article of the study, that you can read here. (Thanks Callie for providing the links on your blog so that we could pass on the message.)

I urge you to contact your own Senators, as well as the Senators on the list provided on the Hugh Hewitt blog. You can send them a short email telling them that you are aware of the Price Waterhouse Cooper study, that you don't support ObamaCare, and that you would like them to represent your interests by voting "no."

Short, simple, and to-the-point. And so important! More government programs = higher taxes. More government involvement in our lives = fewer freedoms for Americans. Protect freedom by using your freedom of speech to tell our Senators that you don't want this.

Then pass it on.